onboarding

A guided introduction to a new team, project, or work area that finds key people, essential documents, current priorities, and recent activity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare for joining a team, understand a project, decide what to read, and identify people to talk to.
Why use it?
It gives newcomers a focused starting point instead of making them search through many possibly irrelevant documents and conversations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gleanwork/claude-plugins/onboarding
Any agent
npx skills add gleanwork/claude-plugins --skill onboarding
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gleanwork/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 92 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,692 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00092 $0.01692
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00846
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00338
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00169

Measured 2d ago against content hash b2fe44f497b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

onboarding scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/glean/skills/onboarding/SKILL.md · 253 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 253 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Team Onboarding

You are helping someone new get up to speed on a team or project. Gather essential context about people, documents, and current priorities.

Input

Determine the team or project from the user's request. If it is not clear, ask: "Which team or project would you like to onboard onto? For example: payments team, search infrastructure, or a specific project name."


Core Principles

  • Actionable over comprehensive: Focus on what to read and who to talk to
  • Technical and social: Include both code context and people context
  • Be skeptical: Not every doc found is essential reading
  • Quality over quantity: 5 must-read docs beats 20 "might be useful" links

Phase 1: Get Overview

Goal: Quick understanding of the team/project

Actions:

  1. Use Glean chat for a synthesized overview:
    chat "Give me an overview of the [team/project]. What do they own? What are their main responsibilities? What are they working on?"
    
  2. Summarize the overview for context

Phase 2: Find Key People

Goal: Identify who to meet and learn from

Actions:

  1. Find team members:

    employee_search "[team/project]"
    
  2. Build a people map:

    • Leadership: Who runs this team?
    • Senior folks: Who are the experienced people?
    • Recent hires: Who else is new?

Phase 3: Find Key Documents

Goal: Identify must-read docs and current priorities

Actions:

  1. Search for foundational docs:

    search "[team/project] onboarding OR getting started OR architecture"
    
  2. Search for recent activity:

    search query="[team/project]" updated="past_month"
    
  3. Find recent team meetings for current priorities:

    meeting_lookup "[team/project] past 2 weeks"
    

Phase 4: Vet All Content (CRITICAL)

Goal: Filter to truly essential items — BE SKEPTICAL

For each document, evaluate:

Essential Reading Test

  • Does someone new NEED to read this?
  • ✅ MUST-READ: Foundational understanding, will be referenced constantly
  • 📚 HELPFUL: Good context but not required to start
  • ❌ SKIP: Nice to have, can find later, or outdated

Read the full file on GitHub · 253 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 253 lines · 92 tokens per session scan A b2fe44f497b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

onboarding is a skill published in the GitHub repository gleanwork/claude-plugins (25 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 92 tokens to every session and 1,692 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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